Chatsworth filming details
An article in Sheffield Today discusses the filming at Chatsworth and includes some new details that we have not seen before–and some of questionable veracity.
Just to disabuse anyone of the quaint notion that this is a low-budget production:
Film makers say picking their leading lady was easy, and 19-year-old Knightley, who first shot to fame in Bend It Like Beckham, is said to have been paid £4.5 million to portray feisty Elizabeth - making her Britain’s highest paid actress after Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta Jones.
Some interiors will be filmed at Chatsworth as well as at Wilton House as we previously reported.
As well as exterior shots of the beautiful home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, filming will also take place inside the Sculpture Gallery and Painted Hall. Other interiors for Pemberley have been filmed at Wilton House in Wiltshire.
Judging by comments left by AustenBlog visitors, this is pretty much the understatement of the year:
Some already fear the film will have difficulty competing with the much-loved 1995 BBC five hour adaptation which starred Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
But Linda said: “They are a good production company so I expect it will be gorgeous and well received.”
Now for the questionable items, from the amusingly named “Pride and Prejudice Factfile:”
Published in 1813, the original version of Pride and Prejudice was written in 1796 and1797.
Jane Austen, left, is rumoured to have written the novel while staying in Bakewell, and Chatsworth was almost certainly the inspiration for Pemberley.
We do not think Jane spent the entire time of 1796-1797 in Bakewell, but we’ll chalk this up to journalistic imprecision.
Chatsworth was used in the popular 1995 BBC production.
We are persuaded that is untrue.
